Watch Franky Zapata Set a New World Record for Hover Board Travel

This hoverboard is called the Fly Board Air and uses jet propulsion; it was invented and manned by Franky Zapata of Zapata Racing.

Zapata flew through the air like the Silver Surfer and traveled an impressive 2,252 meters (7,388) feet) in Sausset-les-Pins, France on April 30. His flight demolishing the previous hover board record of 275.9 meters (905 feet, 2 inches). The record was confirmed by Guinness.

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The Fly Board Air can reach a height of 10,000 feet using an "Independent Propulsion Unit" and can stay in the air for as long as 10 minutes. It can travel at a blistering 93 miles per hour.

Before this, Zapata broke the world record for the most backflips with a water jet pack within one minute with 26 flips, but that record was recently broken by Liu He, who performed 27.